The grim sound of carbon road bikes

[bikeworkshop]

Does anyone else find the sound of an oversize carbon frame with deep carbon wheels repulsive?
I saw a couple today - one racy, rider in team style kit, cubist aero headgear, Sagan glasses, the other gravelly with funny shaped bags hanging all over the place, rider mostly wearing rapha with a teal pisspot helmet and wayfarers

 

[trailwright]

Sounds like they dropped you on the climb?

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

I commented to Jo that they seem noisier as they go by. Drumming, hollow and generally with noisy transmission.

 

[bikeworkshop]

The deep wheels make a kind of unmusical hum, like a groaning noise, and the big frame cavity is a sound box amplifying this and all the other noises.
I suppose if you fit a hope freehub then as soon as you stop pedaling you won't hear anything beyond an enormous devilish screaming

 

[Markybeau]

Hollow, soulless and empty...

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

I really dislike the current crop of noisy freehubs too

 

[benjabbi]

What the feck is that noise?
Turn round expecting a low flying Apache to appear on the horizon and start looking for cover.
No, it's a bloke on a TT bike with a disc wheel.

 

[Rapparee87]

Does anyone else find the sound of an oversize carbon frame with deep carbon wheels repulsive?
I saw a couple today - one racy, rider in team style kit, cubist aero headgear, Sagan glasses, the other gravelly with funny shaped bags hanging all over the place, rider mostly wearing rapha with a teal pisspot helmet and wayfarers

Management consultants or somesuch probably..

Must be tough for youngsters who aren't from well off backgrounds these times who want to start racing. I've heard of U-16s riding bikes costing €5000 plus. It's become a sport for the wealthy.

 

[Fifthgrace]

Not to mention the torment of impossibly inaccessible internally routed cabling chattering in oversized cavities...oops I did!

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Not to mention the torment of impossibly inaccessible internally routed cabling chattering in oversized cavities...oops I did!

Or them rattling inside